Dragoons: Crit Class with no Crit?

[pandabearcat]

Are you upset?

I am merely the enemy of misinformation.

Also bad math.

Also I think, you will find that if you had 0 crit, and instead 900 determination, your damage would be higher.

Well...maybe not, the scaling might favor crit at that point.

But I hope you know it is entropy that is the bane of players everywhere, and as crit thrives on it, it is not good.

Lets say you need to do 100 damage to kill a mob.

I would much rather have 100 damage attack bar none, perfect, average, unfluctuating damage, than have 80 damage, but have a 80% chance to crit.

The EV of 80 damage, 80% chance to crit is 80*(1.5*.8 + .2) = 112 damage.

It is higher damage, by 12%!

But guess what, 20% of the time, you're going to fail that boss.

I'd rather do less dps and be more consistent.

Obviously with more attacks this becomes moot and everything approaches average, but I wanted to point out the fallacy of relying on your "big" crits.